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NEUTMUTT MAY BE DROPPED FOR SESSION
Barkley Proposes
Legislation For
Lending Program
Reconstruction
Finance Corporation
to Handle Funds,
Which Will Be Repaid
to Government;
Liquidating Loans Be
Made from Fund
Washington, July 10.—(AP)—Sen
ator Barkley of Kentucky, the Demo
crat if leader, proposed legislation to
day to carry out a new $2,800,000,-
000 lending program.
The legislation sponsored by the
administration called for the crea
tion ot no new governmental agencies
and most of the financing would be
handled through the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
Sums would be made available as
follows:
Xon-federal public works, “of a
character which will return to the
federal governments its investment
in time, S 350,000,000; self-liquidating
express post roads and highway im
provements, $750,000,000; rolling
stock and ship equipment for lease
to railroads, 85000,000,000; rural elec
trification loans, $460,000,000, plus
$40,000,000 already appropriated;
self-liquidating farm tenancy loans,
$500,000,000 plus not more than SIOO,
000.000 of funds already appropriat
ed: loans through export-import
bank, $100,000,000.
The total did not include an al
ready projected increase of $800,000,-
000 in borrowing authority of the
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Rapid Wage Rise
of Cotton Worker
Blight to South
Washington, July 11.—(AP) —L.
T. Barringer, manifest cotton mer
chant, predicted today an economic
blight for the South if cotton textile
wages were increased too rapidly.
Opposing a proposed 32 1-2 cent
minimum for the entire cotton tex
tile industry at a hearing before Ad
ministrator Elmer F. Andrews, of
the Wage Hour division, Barringer
declared:
“About 250 small southern mills
with less than 15,000 spindles each
are facing calamity.”
Adoption of the proposed wage
order on which Andrews has con
ducted hearings for the last month
would place small southern mill
towns in a deplorable condition and
force their inhabitants to move away
Barringer added. Northern mills
have supported the minimum in an
effort to equalize wages between
north and south.
“There are some persons who ad
mit an increase in the minimum
wage to 32 1-2 cent would result in
rapid elimination of many low wage
mills.” He continued, ‘‘But they in
sist this would be only a speeding
up of a process that has been under
way for some time.”
“They Can’t Strike Against the Government”
Lifting their standard-bearer on their shoulders, skilled WPA workeM walk out on theiNorth^^ach^N.^Tj
airport project as thousands struck against the Government s elimination Rrehon Somervell (right)
in the WPA. But, “They can’t strike against the Government,’’said Lieut Col. Brehon Somervell (right),
jjfew York administrator, as the strike threatened >o sj.
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12 Hurt at Blaze
At School of Deaf
Morganton, July 10.—(AP)—
Twelve persons were seriously
hurt by flying timber and glass
when a dynamite explosion shat
tered the livestock barns of the
North Carolina School for the
Deaf after it caught fire from an
undetermined source today.
Many others among the huge
crowd of spectators attracted by
the fire suffered lesser injuries.
They were given first aid treat
ment in doctors’ offices and at
their homes.
Might Raise
Lost Sub On
Wednesday
Only Two More Pon
toons Remain To Be
Fastened to Sunken
Squalus, With Its Dead
on Ocean Floor at
Portsmouth, N. H.
Portsmouth, N. H., July 10.—(AP)
—A surge of air bubbles breaking the
surface of the Atlantic has been set
as a signal of success this week by a
weary crew of navy men fifteen
miles off this port—a signal that the
sunken submarine Squalus finally
has been lifted from the ocean floor,
navy spokesmen said today.
Navy spokesmen said today, the
bubbles would signify that the seven
pontoons being used for the raising
were performing satisfactorily, blow
ing out air bubbles as they rose, and
that in a matter of minutes three of
the pontoons would break the sur
facet
Only two pontoons remained to be
attached to the Squalus and navy
officials believed the first lift would
be made Wednesday.
SURVEY REPORT ON
NEUSE RIVER ASKED
Washington, July 10.(AP) —Majoi
General Julian S. Schley, chief oi
army engineers, ordered division en
gineers today to prepare a survey re
port on requested flood control im
provements on the Neuse river it
| North Carolina, particularly the sec
-1 tion between Smithfield and Kinston.
ER PUBLISHED
Strikers Os
WPA Going
Back On Job
Leaders Advise Work
ers To Return After
Walking Out in Pro
test Over Longer
Hours; Nightly Meet
ings Are Advised
Washington, July 10.—(AP) —A
back to work movement _ by the
workers security federation develop
ed today in the widespread walkout
of WPA laborers in protest against
the new 130-hour month.
Officials of the federation, re
cently organized from local unions
of WPA workers and the unemploy
ed, advised those of its members who
had quit work to return to their
jobs. They urged the men, how
ever, to continue to protest against
the hours provision by holding night
mass meetings, and by participating
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Three Long Term
Negroes Escape .
From Road Gang
Raleigh, July 10. (AP) —Three
long term Negro prisoners escaped
from a road gang near
morning and a posse with dogs
sought them this afternoon.
Penal superintendent Oscar Pitts
said the escapees were: Ralph
Hewitt, 28, serving 22 1-2 to 30 years
for second degree murder, convicted
in Catawba in 1933; Roscoe Mont
gomery, 34, given 17 years in Guil
ford in September 1937 for second
degree murder; and Jimmy Walker,
alias Johnny Morgan, 32, sentenced
in Guilford for 5 years for second
degree murder.
Insurance For
Cotton Talked
Washington, July 10.—(AP)—Secre
tary Wallace told the Congress today
that it might well extend federal cor
poration insurance to cotton “in view
of the many hazards” that affect the
production of cotton and the large
number of farmers that must face
these hazards”.
A letter from Wallace to Senator
Bankhead, Democrat, Alabama, was
made public before the House Agri
cultural Committee by Cecil A. John
son, assistant manager of the fed
eral corporation insurance corpora
tion.
Johnson appeared in support of a
bill by Representative Fulmer, Dem
ocrat, South Carolina, to extend to
?otton growers the same type of in
surance now offered wheat farmers
lgainst losses from drouth, flood, and
other natural hazard. Similar legis
ation has been approved by the Sen
ate Agricultural Committee.
IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPOLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1939
Block Roosevelt on Neutrality
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Led by Senator Hiram Johnson of California and William E. Borah of Idaho, a powerful isolationist block
of 34 in the Senate pledged themselves to talk to death any change in existing neutrality, usi • “every hon
orable and legitimate means at our command.” Leaving conference in Johnson’s office are (.. to r.): Sena
tors Homer T. Bone, Borah, Gerald P. Nye, and Rusk Holt.
Chamberlain Is Very Cautious
In Discussing Danzig Problem
London, July 10.—(AP)—Prime
Minister Chamberlain declared today
that an attempt to settle Danzig’s
problem by “unilateral action, or
ganied by surruptitious methods”
would threaten Poland’s possible in
dependence, which Britain is pledged
to maintain.
Chamberlain said that while the
present status of the free city was
“neither bacially unjust or illogical,
it may be capable of improvement”,
and added that “it may be that, in a
clearer atmosphere, possible im
provement could be discussed.”
Recent occurrences in Danzig,
Chamberlain said, had caused fears
“that it is intended to settle her fu
ture status by unilateral action, or-
Protest By
Danzig Made
To Poland
Three Polish Soldiers
Alleged To Have
Crossed Into City and
Threatened Customs
Officials
Danzig, July 10.—(AP)—Free city
authorities drafted a protest to Po
land today against an alleged “viola
tion of the frontier” by three Polish
soldiers. Police charged that shortly
before dawn two Polish privates and
a non-commissioned officer crossed
the frontier bridge over the Vistula
river and menaced Danzig customs
officials with a rifle.
The customs officials, they said,
held their ground and the Poles were
persuaded to return to Poland. A
Danzig Nazi newspaper described the
incident as “Polish provocation.”
It came in the wake of a defiant
Nazi demand for removal of a Po
lish military depot on the strategic
Westerplatte, at the mouth of the
Vistula.
“Away with this Polish ammuni
tion dump at our front door,” was,
in effect, the demand made by Dan
zig’s Nazi party leader, Albert
Forster.
GERMAN ARMY HEAD
DEPARTING BERLIN
Berlin, July 10. —(AP) Colonel
General Walther von Brauchitsch,
chief of staff of the German army,
left Berlin today for a vacation of
several weeks.
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight; Tues
day generally fair, except scat
tered showers in extreme east
portion.
ganized by suruptitious methods.”
“If the sequence of events should
be in fact such as is contemplated in
this hypothesis, the members will
realize that the issue could not be
considered as a purely local matter
involving the rights and liberties of
the Danzigers, but will at once raise
graver issues affecting Polish exis
tence and independence,” Chamber
lain said.
He then declared that “we have
guaranteed to give assistance to Po
land in the case of a clear threat to
her independence, which she consid
ers it vital to resist with her national
forces, and we are firmly resolved to
carry out this undertaking.” Cham
berlain’s statement was intended to
dispel any doubt in the minds of Ger
$25,000,000 Paid
On Unemployment
Raleigh, July 10.—Receipts of
the North Carolina Unemploy
ment Compensation Fund have
exceeded $25,000,000, while bene
fit payments exceed $11,000,000
Chairman Charles G. Powell, of
the State Commission, reveals.
Receipts through July 6, amount
ed to $25,039,594.05, including
$24,628,441.48 in contributions
from liable employers and $411,-
152,57 in interest on the balance
in the United States Treasury.
Benefit payment to unemployed
and partially unemployed work
ers through July 6 in about 18
months, reached $11,009,045.90,
Mr. Powell said. This leaves a bal
ance in the State fund of $14,030,-
548.15 as of July 6,‘which includes
the pooled fund and the amount
being credited to individual em
ployer accounts under the merit
rating plan.
Sabath Seeks
Restore Wage
RateForWorks
Washington, July 10.—(AP) •
Representative Sabath (D., 111.) in
troduced in the House today a bill
to restore the prevailing wage rate
on Works Relief projects.
Elimination of the prevailing wage
rate from the 1940 Works Relief ap
propriation act caused the hours of
some WPA workers to be increased
to 130 hours per month and brought
on a widespread strike of skilled
WPA workers
The American Federation of Lab
or protested that elimination of the
provision would tend to lower wages
generally since its effect would be to
make WPA employees work at much
lower rates of pay
William Green, president of the
A. F. of L., said today the A. F. of
L. would use all of its economic
strength to compel the Congress to
restore the old wage rates on WPA
projects.
Failure, he added, would mean
-strikes and strikes.” .
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
man officials that Britain would
stand by her pledge to Poland in the
case of Danzig, and it was under
stood to have had the advance ap
proval of both Poland and France.
Chamberlain’s cautious phrase
ology had a double purpose—to avoid
language which Germany might use
to advantage in furthering her claims
of encirclement, and to leave open
the door to possible negotiations of
a settlement of the Danzig question
by Germany and Poland.
The statement was intended to
supplement the recent speech of For
eign Secretary Lord Halifax, who as
serted in strong terms that Britain
was determined to resist aggression,
but omitted specific reference to
Danzig.
Nation Pays
Tribute To
Sec. Swanson
Washington, July 10.—(AP)
Congress, President Roosevelt, and
the Supreme Court joined today in
final tribute to Claude A. Swanson,
late secretary of the navy, with a
State funeral in the Senate chamber.
With bowed heads they heard the
chaplain of the Senate and House
perform the brief and simple funeral
ceremony over the flag draped cas
ket.
Members of the Swanson family
sat at one side of the flower-heaped
rostrum, while Mr. Roosevelt took
his seat directly in front, the mem
bers of the cabinet on his left.
SOLUTION SEEN IN
PROBLEM AT DANZIG
Berlin, July 10.—(AP) —A “rea
sonable solution” of the Danzig pro
blem is possible, some Nazi sources
said today alter British Prime Min
ister Chamberlain’s statement in the
House of Commons on the Danzig
situation.
Daniels As Successor To
Swanson Is Again Talked
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
in the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 10.—Death of Sec
retary of the Navy Claude Swanson
last Friday revived rumors going
around State Capitol circles some
weeks ago to the effect that
Josephus Daniels, now ambassador
to Mexico, would like very much to
get back in the berth which he held
during the Wilson administration.
The ambassador’s are is regarded as
almost, but not quite, insuperable
obstacle to his appointment.
The original story has it that the
President would like very much to
replace Mr. Daniels in Mexico, but
that he did not want to offend his
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May Become
First Order
In January
Prompt Consideration
When Senate Meets
Again Would Be As
sured to President;
Committee To Con
sider Issue Tuesday
Washington, July 10.—(AP) —As a
compromise in the closely drawn
Senate battle over neutrality legisla
tion, a suggestion was put forward
in some quarters today to make the
controversial subject the first order
of business whenever Congress re
convenes.
This would assure President Roose
veil of prompt consideration, it was
argued, should international devel
opments cause him to call a special
session before January.
Administration forces were silent
showdown meeting tomor
row of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. At that time, • opponents
of the administration bill to repeal
the arms embargo against warring
nations are expected to move that no
action be taken on neutrality pro
posals during this congressional ses
sion.
The 23-member committee is sharp
ly divided on the issue, and both
sides waged a vigorous week-end
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Treasury Again
Slashes Price On
Foreign Silver
Washington, July 10.—(AP) —The
Treasury cut its foreign silver prices
again today to set a price of 35c an
ounce.
This figure was sufficiently above
the London silver market price of
$33.84c to enable shipping of the
metal across the Atlantic for the first
time in about two weeks. The 35c re
presented a reduction of 1.75 c from
the last quoted price Friday.
With the London market priced at
33.84 c and since it costs only about
1-2 of 1 per cent per ounce to ship
silver across the ocean, it became
possible to buy silver in London and
ship it here for selling to the United
States Treasury.
Officials would not say what the
disparity in the new Treasury ahd
London prices meant, but some ob
servers commented that the differ
ence might mean that the treasury
would intervene to stabilize the
world’s silver market.
McNutt Looms
As Choice For
One New Job
Washington, July 10. (AP)
Stephen Early, a White House secr
retary, told reporters today he would
“not be at all surprised” if, sooner
or later, Paul V. McNutt was not
found “somewhere in the adminis
tration.”
McNutt, former governor of In
diana, and now American high com
missiner of the Philippines, has been
mentioned as a possible head for the
new Federal security agency when
he retires from his Philippine post.
Lending additional credence to re
ports he might be offered the job,
was the fact that President Roosevelt
invited him to a 15-minute confer
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good friend and former chief. On
the other hand, the President knows
from his experience with Mr. Dan
iels during the World War just what
the Daniels idea for development of
a big navy is. Their ideas run along
the same lines
There is no doubt about the desire
of Mr. Baniels to return to the Unit
ed States. There is evidence that
he would like to get back in time
to take a part in the pre-convention
presidential campaign next summer.
But there hasn’t been found a man
on capitol hill who would hazard
the opinion that the ambassador is
going to resign his Mexican post un
less he can get a good job “back
home.”